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grooves are narrower and gradually converge to become evanescent 

 at basal fourth without becoming contiguous. 



The metafemora have the grooves moderately narrow and evanes- 

 cent at basal third, where the margins are distant. 



The protibise are slightly compressed and distinctly carinate exter- 

 nally in basal two-thirds; the tarsal grooves are not strongly devel- 

 oped and limited posteriorly by a series of rather coarse and sparse 

 denticulations, and the floors are subscabrous; the articular cavities 

 are more or less closed. 



The mesotibia) are scarcely compressed and feebly carinate exter- 

 nally in basal fourth; the tarsal grooves are rather well developed, 

 rather broad apically, gradually narrowing toward base, and their 

 floors are subglabrous, being limited by muricate margins; articular 

 cavities closed. 



The metatibia> are somewhat rounded, obsoletely carinate in basal 

 third externally, thence to apex more or less flattened and concave; 

 surface of the grooves more or less shining and sparsely subasperate; 

 articular cavities closed. 



The tarsi in the specimen at hand are moderately long and rather 

 stout. 



The protarsi are about a third of their length shorter than a meso- 

 tarsus. Joints two, three, and four are subequal, wider than long, 

 and together equal to the fifth ; the first is about as long as wide. 



The mesotarsi are subequal in length to a metatarsus. Joints two 

 and three about as wide as long, the fourth scarcely as wide as long, 

 apparently very slightly decreasing in length from the second to the 

 fourth, together subequal to the fifth; the first is a little longer than 

 wide. 



The metatarsi are about four-tenths as long as a metatibia. Joints 

 two and three about equal in length and size, a little longer than wide 

 and together scarcel}^ as long as the fourth ; the first is about one and 

 a half times longer than wide. 



ELEODES WICKHAMI Horn. 



Elcodes wickhami Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XVIII, Feb., 1891, p. 41, pi. 

 I, fig. 12. 



Elongate, more or less shining and caudate. 



Head twice as wide as long, rather opaque, feebly convex, finely 

 and A^ery sparsely punctate, frontal suture distinct. Antenrue rather 

 long, reaching to or slightly beyond the prothoracic base, not com- 

 pressed nor dilated in outer three joints, third joint a little longer 

 than the next two taken together, fourth very little longer than the 

 fifth, the latter, to the seventh inclusive subequal, eighth slightly 

 shorter and a little more robust, ninth and tenth orbicular, eleventh 

 ovate. 



